Benjamin by Emma Lang

Author:Emma Lang [Lang, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9781943089062
Amazon: 194308906X
Publisher: Beth Williamson
Published: 2016-07-04T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

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Ben awoke slowly as the pinpricks of dawn teased his eyelids. Grace lay in his arms, warm and soft beneath the blanket. He had slept fully last night for the first time in his memory. His life had been a series of snatches of sleep.

After making love to Grace, they’d spent the afternoon riding toward the compound, toward his past. Instead of feeling sick to his stomach and worried shitless about what would happen when he met the third Cunningham brother, he had fallen into a deep, dreamless sleep.

He could attribute it all to Grace, the angel who had saved his life. Or he could tell himself he’d finally started to come back to life. He’d forgotten what it felt like to be alive, to feel anything other than the darkest of thoughts and feelings. By no means was he healed, but he was definitely not the same man she’d forced into helping her.

By shooting his hat off.

He chuckled and she stirred in his arms. Her blonde hair was spread out on his chest like a silky fan. He felt the texture between his fingers awkwardly because of the bandages on his hands. He’d lost control again, but this time she’d pulled him back from the edge of lost.

Not many people would have taken him on. Ben was no slouch when it came to throwing a punch or hitting a target. But this woman had slammed into him like she was a force of nature, pushing him into the dirt and knocking the fury from him.

Now she’d taught him so much more. Ben kissed her forehead and breathed in her scent. Not flowers or anything feminine, but wholly Grace.

“I’m not sure I gave you leave for such familiarity.” Her sleep-tinged voice cut through his thoughts.

“Shoot me.”

She laughed and rolled away from him. “Don’t tempt me.”

“We should get going. I think we’re only a couple days away.”

He heard the sound of a horse in the distance and got up in an instant. His heart slammed against his ribs. Perhaps it was nobody important. Perhaps it was the rider who’d been following them since the beginning of their partnership.

“Let’s move.” He yanked on his boots and packed up their gear in less than a minute.

Grace had already saddled the horses by the time he tethered their blankets and saddlebags. She threw herself up on Swift and waited while he did the same on Paladin.

As they rode off in the opposite direction of the rider, they rode as though the hounds of hell were chasing them. Both rode strong horses and rode with precision and skill.

Ben led for an hour while Grace followed behind. They rode through various patches of woods and roads until the horses were lathered.

“Ben, we need to rest the horses.” Grace’s voice broke the silence. “I don’t think anyone could have followed that route.” She was breathless and a sheen of perspiration covered her face.

Ben slowed Paladin to a trot and then a walk. He spotted a rock formation that blocked the view from the road they were on.

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